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Heraldic Signs Upon
William Branham
"As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first advent of Christ, so are you sent to prepare the way for his second advent "
The First Heraldic Sign that appeared upon him
--- A light like a star ---
William Branham began his life in the Spring of 1909. He was born into the poorest of families, deep in the hills of southern Kentucky.
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​From the minute he was born (April 6, 1909), William Branham was set apart from the ordinary. Right after he was born, a light, almost like a star, flew into the room and startled his parents Charles and Ella Branham. The strange light circled the room several times, then stopped over the bed hovering over the new mother and child. Then as quickly as it had come in, the fireball left, whirling up past the rafters and out through the roof. ​
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How is that star-like light that darted into the cabin and hovered above the head of the infant a heraldic sign, showing that Branham was a herald of CHRIST'S SECOND ADVENT?
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Very much more so, for it was about 5 a.m., the usual time for the appearance of the morning star; therefore, that light was a sign of the morning star which heralds the rising sun. As the morning star gives a clear message that the sun is just about to rise, the child that was born that morning was a messenger with a clear message to warn the world that the Sun of righteousness was about to appear again. For the scripture says:
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2Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
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So was William Branham, born under the sign of the morning star, a light that would shine in the darkness of Laodicea, until the dawning of the day, when Christ the day star appears with the final message of redemption.
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​Malachi 4:1-2 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
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Notice, that Jesus comes as the day of the LORD, the Sun of righteousness, but before he arrives, the morning star, as Elijah, prepares his way.
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​Malachi 4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
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That is why Branham was born at around 5.00 am and a star-like light came upon him; it was a heraldic sign.
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The Second Heraldic Sign
-- The Robin --
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"I was born on April the 6th, 1909," said Branham. "Course, you know, that makes me a little over twenty-five now. And so, the morning that I was born, Mother said that they opened up the window. Now, we had no doctors, there was a midwife. And that midwife was my grandmother. And so when I was born and my first beginning to cry, and Mother wanted to see her child. And she was no more than a child herself. And when they opened up the little window, just at the break of day, about five o'clock, and there was an old robin sitting by the side of a little bush---as you all have seen the picture of it in my book of my life story. An old robin was sitting there just singing for all that was in him.
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"I've always loved robins. Now, you boys out in radio land, don't shoot at my birds. You see, they're... Them's my birds...
"He was sitting at the side of the window, a-chirping as the robins sing. And Dad pushed back the window. And when they pushed the little window door back, that Light that you see in the picture come whirling in the window, says my mother, and hung over the bed. Grandmother didn't know what to say.
"And then she opened ... when they opened this window and this Light stood in there, they did not know what to do. Dad had bought him, Mama said, a new pair of overalls for this event. He was standing with his arms in the bib of the old overalls, like the woodsmen and loggers used in those days. And it frightened them."
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Why a robin singing all heart out? A heraldic sign! When you hear birds start to sing, what does that tell you? The morning has come, the sun is just about to rise! Yes, them little singing birds, them little gifts of the Spirit, they are heralds of the morning! Their cry announces the advent of the day star. So was Branham born under such a sign, with the gifts of a herald, to let out a cry reaching the ends of the earth, that the Sun of righteousness is just behind him! For a forerunner, who is a herald, is also called a crier!
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Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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​Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
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Yes, cry out that the Serpent's seed, and all those religious denominational traditions, their theology, and their dogmas are lies! They are all as weeds, in the name of flowers, upon a rock; for all are ready to corrupt err the Sun rises (as they mournfully mutter, "the days of prophets are over, no more prophets, no more revelation"). But the Spoken Word is the Original Seed! The Word! Back to the Word, the Robin-like voice crying out! Hallelujah! What a herald! Oh, what a heraldic sign upon Branham! How clear!
The Third Heraldic Sign Appears to Little Branham
-- The Voice from a Bush --
And then I remember one day, while at the spring at this little cabin, was just behind the house--- There were eleven months difference between me and my next brother, and he was still crawling. And I had a big rock in my hand, and I was trying to show him how hard I could throw this rock in the old mud, where the spring had run out of the ground and made the muddy ground. And I heard a bird, and it was singing up in a tree. And I looked up to that tree and the bird flew away. And when it did, a voice spoke to me. Now, I know you think I could not think and remember that. But the Lord God who is Judge of the earth and the heavens and all there is, knows that I'm telling the truth.
That bird, when it flew away, a voice came from where the bird was in the tree, like a wind caught in the bush, and it said, "You'll live near a city called New Albany." And I've lived, from the time I was three years old until this time, within three miles of New Albany, Indiana.I went in and told my mother about it. Well, she thought I was just dreaming or something. Later we moved to Indiana and Father went to work for a man, Mr. Wathen, a rich man.
What does that mean? How is it a heraldic sign? Well, we shall see it as clear as day. Just keep checking in for answers...
The Third Heraldic Sign
--- Voice from a whirlwind ---
However, the most supernatural event that would affect William Branham happened when he was seven years old. He noticed a whirlwind in a tree. The small whirlwind stayed longer than normal so he became suspicious about it. He picked up the container of water he had been carrying and started, after making a few steps he looked behind at the whirlwind again. As he watched, a voice suddenly spoke from the tree saying, “Don’t ever drink, or smoke, or defile your body in any way. There will be work for you to do when you get older.” He threw away the container and started off fleeing and screaming.
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What does that mean? How is it a heraldic sign? Well, we shall see it as clear as day. Just keep checking in for answers...
On the Wings of a Snow, White Dove
The meaning of the symbols presented in the sermon with the above title that was preached by William Branham about a month to his depture.
On The Wings Of A Snow-white Dove
(William Branham)
Sunday Evening, November 28 1965
Life Tabernacle, Shreveport, LA.
1 Let's bow our heads.
Dear Lord, we thank Thee tonight for the promise of the coming of the Lord Jesus, where we'll meet in a great meeting where it'll never end ... of joys and songs, as we praise You through the ceaseless ages that is to come. We ask Your blessings upon the meeting tonight. We ask Your blessings upon this tabernacle, upon its staff, its pastors, its co-workers, co-pastors, and all.
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We ask You to bless these, Lord, who have come many miles to be in the meeting; lay Your hand of mercy upon them as they travel back to their homes. Grant it, Lord. May we meet many more times together in this place called the house of God, to worship. Bless those who are tuned in tonight, Lord, by the way of the telephone. May every unsaved person find Jesus Christ their Saviour tonight; heal all the sick and the afflicted. Father, Your servant is reporting for service, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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3 The Lord bless each of you. So happy to be here tonight! I just got in when Brother Ernie was singing the last part of his song, "On the Wings of a Dove." Certainly a beautiful poem, and I know it's timely.
And to all you people that's tuned in tonight out across the nation, I wished you were only here to see this a-waiting, expectations on the people's faces as they're jammed in the building tonight; having a wonderful time.
We want to thank Brother Jack Moore, and Sister Moore, and Brother Noel, Brother Bootlayer, Brother Brown, all these associates here, the whole tabernacle, the whole staff, for inviting us back.
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6 It was simply just the hand of God that worked it out. There's a brother here that had a dream sometime ago about this thing happening, said I was standing in a pair of white trousers, in Indian moccasins. And that's just exactly the way I was standing when I called Brother Jack for the meeting here, just exactly, (at Carson, Colorado) Indian moccasins and a pair of white Levi trousers on. Brother Leo, if you're listening in, I was just to meet you in a few minutes then. So that's when the meeting took its birthplace right there.
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7 Now, it's Sunday night; I know many of you will drive all night tonight going home, some of you will be driving in the morning. I've got two days drive ahead of me. And so we won't hold you very long. And I've tried to make this an old-time night, the night that Brother Brown, and Brother Jack, and all of us that used to pray for the sick years ago, would pray for the sick in the same manner that we did then.
I was thinking tonight in Tucson, it happened to be that Victor Le Doux, he was this Frenchman... He's a genuine Frenchman. I believe I was telling you the other day, that when I got through speaking, trying to separate denominationalism from real Christianity... And a man was giving me a--kind of a short talk about it, from a famous denominational Pentecostal church.
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And so Danny Henry, I think he's some movie star's cousin or something, and he was a Baptist; and he run down to the platform, and just threw his arms around me and said, "Brother Branham, I hope this don't sound sacrilegious, but that could be the 23rd chapter of Revelation." And when he started to say something else, he started speaking in tongues.
And this, three French people... A Frenchwoman (big, heavyset woman, dark complected, from Louisiana, she may be setting here tonight) wrote it down on a piece of paper, what he said. Then Victor Le Doux, a minister, wrote down the same thing; and they were comparing notes, or going to. A light-headed man (kind of a blond hair) standing way back, packed back as far as he could, come walking up, wanted to see those notes. He was the interpreter of French at the U.N.. And all three notes was the same.
And It said this:
Because thou has chosen this harder way, you've chose it, you have took--chose it by your own choosing. ('Course we know that, Moses had to make his choice. Said) This is the precise and correct way, because it's My way. And what a--what a glorious decision you've made. (Said) Because of this, a large portion of heaven awaits you. And this in itself is that which will make, and bring to pass, the tremendous victory in the Love Divine.
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All three was the same. I thought I had that in my Bible tonight (I looked in there, but I didn't.), the original copy of it.
19 Danny Henry don't know. Like myself, he hardly knows good English, let alone French. And if you notice in there, it's like the French language, they put the verb before the adverb. And the interpretation of all three was exactly alike.
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Danny Henry, sometime ago, he make... Danny may be listening in tonight. Victor Le Doux perhaps is, because I understand he's in Tucson. And you people in Tucson at the church, the tabernacle, the Tucson Tabernacle where Brother Green's the pastor; Brother Victor Le Doux, I understand is in a tent meeting right at the foot of Park Avenue where it runs out into Highway 80, coming this a-way. And if you're out there tomorrow night and next night, whenever how long he'll be there, go to hear him; and Danny may be with him. And it could be that they're listening in from the Tabernacle tonight; I don't know.
21 Danny went to Jerusalem right after that, and said he was laying there in the tomb on the board--rock board that Jesus laid on, a corpse just before His resurrection. And said, all of sudden I come on his mind; and said he run out, begin crying, and he walked outside. And he was directed... He's a man that makes things out of rocks; tumbles rocks, I meant. Said he went to where they said the cross was drove down, and he just dropped off, knocked off a little piece of rock about like, oh, a inch square, or something; put it in his pocket, and was impressed to bring it home.
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When he did, something said to him, "Make Brother Branham a pair of cuff links out of that." So he put it in the acid, and it changed the color from the regular limestone-looking rock to a bloodstone rock. And he made the cuff links.
And when he give them to me, he hadn't noticed it, but right through the middle of both cuff links runs that straight, narrow strip. I have them on tonight to pray for the sick. See, a--a bloodstone color, like the dripping blood, with the straight, narrow line right through, just exactly what his prophecy said, the straight and narrow way (See?) in the prophecy. I showed it to him.
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Danny, if you're listening in, you or Brother Le Doux, either one, tonight's going to be the old fashion night when we're to pray for the sick. I'm glad to walk this straight, narrow way, the way of the Gospel, the way of the Word, with our Lord Jesus Christ.
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25 God bless you all. Now, you're so nice to talk to, I'll just talk a long time, and I'll have you here too long. Billy said there's between three and four hundred people to be prayed for, so I'll just have to hurry up with our message as quick as possible, and then pray for the sick.
Now, to the people in Arizona, the next Saturday night, we're over at (never can think of the name of that town) Yuma, Arizona, at the banquet. So then in California we follow right on in Sunday morning, to Los Angeles and the places that's been predicted to be there.
Tonight, I want to take a text out of the Scripture.
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28 By the way, I was setting in a cafeteria today, the Morrison's Cafeteria; Brother Jack, his wife, I and my wife, we went over to Morrison's Cafeteria to have a little time together, we hadn't been out; the women had never been together. There was a young fellow walked up to me; his name's Green; he's the father of Brother Pearry Green. And he said, "You know, Brother Branham, you was talking about a 'johnny pin' the other night." That's really a... What is it? Bobby pin. He said, "You were talking about a 'johnny pin,'" said, "I got you a 'johnny pin.'" He gave it to me.
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Now, that's a "johnny pin," ladies; that won't work in the hair. A "johnny pin," he said--said he'd been using it for years, to hold the pages of his Bible down. So he said, "I'll give you a genuine 'johnny pin.'" So Brother Green, if you're here somewhere or listening in, that "johnny pin's" a dandy, just holds it right.
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30 Now, we want to get into the Scriptures right away. And I want you to turn with me now to Psalms 55, and then also Matthew 3. And my subject tonight was Brother Ernie's topic: "On The Wings Of A Snow-white Dove." Now, I won't be able to strike all the notes and Scriptures that I got here, because I'll just kinda skip over a few of them, and because I promised the message.
The Lord willing, for Yuma next Saturday night, I want to preach on the conditions for the rapture if the Lord willing.
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32 In Psalms 53... I beg your pardon, Psalms 55:
Give ear... (pardon? 55, yes, sir)
Give ear to my prayer, O God;... hide not thyself from my supplication.
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terror of death are fallen upon me.
Fearless and trembling comings are come upon me, the horror has overwhelmed me.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. ("Selah" means "Amen")
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33 David, a lover of the wilderness, when he got distressed and the people wouldn't believe him, and the enemies had come upon him, he said, "If I had the wings of a dove, I would fly out into the wilderness and there remain." How many times have I thought that same thing. If I could take my rifle off of the wall, my camp bag, go out in the wilderness and never return again. I've asked the Lord if I can live to see the day... I don't never want a funeral service; I said, "If I can just go out in the woods somewhere, set 'Old Blondie' against the tree..."
That's my rifle, excuse me, I--I--I say that on account of my wife setting there. You know, that rifle a brother here gave me years ago, I killed fifty-five head of game with it, without missing a shot, some of them seven to eight hundred yards. I call it "Blondie" because my wife's a brunette, so she said I think more of the rifle than I do her. But...
So I--I'd like to set it against a tree, and say, "Lord, let Joseph find it someday." I'd like to take the wings of a dove and fly away.
But just like one time up in the mountains and watching an eagle, and seeing him fly away (You know my story of it.), I said, "It's good to be here, Lord; like Peter said, 'we could build three tabernacles.' But down at the foot of the mountain, the sick and the afflicted are waiting; the lost and dying are waiting." So let us do what we can while it's day, and someday there'll be a--the wings of a white Eagle will come down; He'll bear us away.
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37 Now, in Matthew 3:16, I'd like to read 16 and 17:
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went straightway up out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: